USN-2032-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 13.10
• Ubuntu 13.04
• Ubuntu 12.10
• Ubuntu 12.04

Packages

• thunderbird - Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client

Details

Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were
tricked into connecting to a malicious server, an attacker could possibly
exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash,
potentially execute arbitrary code, or lead to information disclosure.
(CVE-2013-1741, CVE-2013-2566, CVE-2013-5605, CVE-2013-5607)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 13.10

• thunderbird - 1:24.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.13.10.1

Ubuntu 13.04

• thunderbird - 1:24.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.13.04.1

Ubuntu 12.10

• thunderbird - 1:24.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.12.10.1

Ubuntu 12.04

• thunderbird - 1:24.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

After a standard system update you need to restart Thunderbird to make
all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2013-1741
• CVE-2013-2566
• CVE-2013-5605
• CVE-2013-5607
• https://launchpad.net/bugs/1253027

Related notices

• USN-2031-1: firefox
• USN-2030-1: nss, libnss3, libnss3-1d
• USN-2087-1: libnspr4-0d, nspr, libnspr4